---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001062993-23-000912"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ANY"
cik: "0001591956"
company_name: "Sphere 3D Corp."
filed_at: "2023-01-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T15:20:09.703899+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sphere 3D amends by-laws to set 33-1/3% quorum after losing foreign private issuer status

## Summary
- Ceased foreign private issuer status effective Jan 1, 2023; became domestic issuer under U.S. securities laws.
- Board approved amendment to By-law No. 1 to comply with Nasdaq Rule 5620(c) requiring 33-1/3% quorum.
- Amendment filed as Exhibit 3.1 to the Form 8-K.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001062993-23-000912
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ANY
- cik: 0001591956
- company_name: Sphere 3D Corp.
- filed_at: 2023-01-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1591956/000106299323000912/0001062993-23-000912-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1591956/000106299323000912/form8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001062993-23-000912.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Sphere 3D Corp.: Amendment to by-laws to change minimum quorum requirements for shareholder meetings to comply with Nasdaq Rule 5620(c) (effective 2023-01-12).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-01-12
  source text: On January 12, 2023, the Board of Directors of the Company approved an amendment to the Company's by-laws to change the minimum quorum requirements for a meeting of shareholders in order to comply with Nasdaq Rule 5620(c)
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1591956/000106299323000912/0001062993-23-000912-index.htm

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